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Starson17 · 11-24-2010, 10:55 AM

BTW, I didnt' see it in this thread (there are a lot of posts quickly - to my surprise), but ISBN is intentionally never merged. This was a conscious decision/preference by me, and when I started a thread later, to see if anyone wanted ISBN merging, it was almost universally agreed that the users did not want it. I added a notice to that effect in the warning that comes up on Merge and Safe-Merge.

Another detail during Merge: An "Unknown" author or title (in the current language) is considered to be an empty field and gets overwritten if a second selected book has a title or author that is not "Unknown".

11-24-2010, 10:55 AM	#13
Starson17 Wizard Posts: 4,004 Karma: 177841 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: WinMo: IPAQ; Android: HTC HD2, Archos 7o; Java:Gravity T	BTW, I didnt' see it in this thread (there are a lot of posts quickly - to my surprise), but ISBN is intentionally never merged. This was a conscious decision/preference by me, and when I started a thread later, to see if anyone wanted ISBN merging, it was almost universally agreed that the users did not want it. I added a notice to that effect in the warning that comes up on Merge and Safe-Merge. Another detail during Merge: An "Unknown" author or title (in the current language) is considered to be an empty field and gets overwritten if a second selected book has a title or author that is not "Unknown". Last edited by Starson17; 11-24-2010 at 11:02 AM.